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Table of Content 

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Chapter I. The coordinates of the Archives 

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• The enemy-archives (István Rév)
• Archival parasailing (Trudy H. Peterson)
• Access to archives: a political issue (Charles Kecskeméti)
• The Open Society Archives: a brief history (András Mink)

Chapter II. The holdings 

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Introduction

Communism and Cold War

• Records of the Research Institute of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
  • The Archives in Munich (András Mink)
  • Archival arrangement and structure of the records of Radio
  • Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute (Leszek Pudlowski)
  • The Information Resources Department
    • The East European Archives
    • Records of the Bulgarian Unit (Olga Zaslavskaya)
    • Records of the Czechoslovak Unit (Pavol Salamon)
    • Records of the Hungarian Unit (Csaba Szilágyi)
    • Records of the Polish Unit (Leszek Pudlowski)
    • Records of the Polish Underground Publications Unit (Leszek Pudowski)
    • Records of the Romanian Unit (Csaba Szilágyi)
    • Albanian Records (Pavol Salamon)
    • Records of the Yugoslav Section (Bosko Spasojevic)
    • The Slavic, Baltic and Eurasian Archives (Natasha Zanegina)
    • The Soviet "Red" Archives (Natasha Zanegina)
    • Soviet Monitoring (Olga Zaslavskaya)
    • Samizdat Archives (Natasha Zanegina)
  • The Publications Department (Pavol Salamon)
• Records of the Open Media Research Institute (Natasha Zanegina - Pavol Salamon)
  • East European Archives
  • Slavic, Baltic and Eurasian Archives
• Samizdat publications of Gábor Demszky (András Mink)
• Personal papers of General Béla Király (Csaba Szilágyi)

Human Rights

• The Records of the International Human Rights Law Institute (Bosko Spasojevic)
• Records of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (Bosko Spasojevic - Csaba Szilágyi)
• Records of Index on Censorship (Csaba Szilágyi - Bosko Spasojevic)
• On establishing an international repository of documents related to war crimes and human rights violations (Iván Székely)

Soros Foundations Network (Gabriella Ivacs)

• The corporate memory of the Soros foundations network
• Belarusian Soros Foundation (Csaba Szilágyi)
• Center for Study of Constitutionalism in Eastern Europe
• Central European University

Audiovisual materials (Zsuzsa Zádori - Andrea Jakobs)

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• Oral history interviews relating to the activities of
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
• The death of Yugoslavia
• Soviet and post-Soviet History
• The 1956 Hungarian Revolution
• Materials donated by institutions of the Soros foundations network

The Library (Katalin Dobó)

• Computerization
• The Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Book Collection
• Periodicals
• Books

Chapter III. Public programs 

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• The series of historical exhibitions (Edina Kishonthy)
• Academic programs (András Mink)
• Open House (Gabriella Ivacs)

Chapter IV. Cooperation (Iván Székely) 

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• Regional Archival Information Centre
• International conferences organized by the Open Society Archives in Budapest
• Conferences organized by the Open Society Archives in foreign countries
• Other forms of cooperation
• Cooperation with civil organizations
• The Recovering Identity Program
• The draft DNA Recommendation
• Managing the records of the Soros foundations network (Gabriella Ivacs)

Chapter V. Access, reference services and automation 

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• Research services (Bosko Spasojevic)
• Grants (Eric Weaver)
• The automation system (Sergey Glushakov)

Chapter VI. The Open Society Archives and the Central European University

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• The Archives in the University (Bosko Spasojevic)
• Summer University (Nóra Ábrahám)

APPENDIX 

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• Proposal to establish an international repository of documents related to war crimes and human rights violations at the Open Society Archives 
• Genetic proofs of relatedness to help recover the identity of refugees without documents and other proofs of identity. Principles and Recommendations – Draft
• Chronology of exhibitions
  • Politics As Art/Art As Politics – conference program, October 1997
  • Russia in the 20th Century – Competition for high school students, 1997
  • Festival of Documentary Films on the Conflicts in the former Yugoslavia,
  • April 1999 – program
  • The program of the Gulag Film Week, May 1999
• Selection of theses of CEUstudents who made research at the Open Society Archives
• Research Grants
• List of Reference Information Papers
• Reference Information Paper 6:
• Records Relating to Non-Conformist Artists in the USSR, 1956–1986
• Acquisition Policy
• List of Fonds
• Contributors
• Staff of the Open Society Archives